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Jesse Tinsley

Jesse Tinsley

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Jesse Tinsley joined The Spokesman-Review in 1989. He currently is a photojournalist in the Photo Department covering daily news and shoots drone photography.

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  • Keeping memories alive: Greg Jensen stands and salutes as taps is played Monday during military honors offered at the chapel nearby at the Washington State Veterans Cemetery in Medical Lake. Jensen, a Vietnam-era veteran of the Air Force, goes to the cemetery almost every day with his lawn chair and a Bible to visit the grave of his wife of 42 years, Estrella. “It’s been 16 months and I miss her every day,” he said. Indoors, a handful of veterans and a few family members read the names of veterans who died without a military funeral, said prayers and folded a flag, followed by a gun salute and taps.

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  • Ross Welburn of Hayden rides his shark cycle in the parade at Kinetic Fest, a daylong celebration of moving sculpture and human-powered transportation Saturday at the Riverstone development in Coeur d'Alene Sunday, July 12. Welburn created the frame from wood and plastic pipe and covered it with plastic.

  • Baseball great George Brett meets with Mike Redmon before the Northwest League-Pioneer League All-Star Game.

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  • Rogers players celebrate after beating West Valley. The Pirates have two victories – back to back – for the first time since 2011.

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  • Lewis and Clark receiver Leo Haghighi, left, hovers over the goal line and makes a diving touchdown catch past the outstretched arms of Mead's Beau Skinner, right, the LC's first score of the game in the first half, Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, at Joe Albi Stadium.

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  • Eastern Washington standout receiver Cooper Kupp scampers for a few more yards while straight-arming Northern Arizona’s Eddie Horn (7) in the first half Saturday, Nov. 7, 2015 at EWU’s Roos Field.

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  • Matt Van Vleet, who lives on 18th Ave., east of Bernard, surveys the damage to his garage and two cars from a neighbor's tree, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. Another car now shown, a Subaru, was purchased only a week ago.

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  • South Arthur Street between 27th and 28th avenues remained blocked Saturday by fallen power poles, lines and trees.

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  • Michele and John Barron stand quietly after laying a paving stone inscribed with their son's name in the walkway surrounding the new memorialoutside the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015. Josh Barron, a U.S. Marine, was killed in the crash of a V-22 Osprey aircraft in Hawaii in May 2015.

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All Stories

News >  Washington

Then and Now: Spokane International Airport

Spokane is well-known for many examples of midcentury modern architecture and the creative minds that designed them. Midcentury is often characterized by utilitarian exposed concrete walls and beams framing curtains of windows.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Sweeny/Finucane House

Spokane’s city traffic planners proposed extending Stevens Street up over the South Hill bluff in 1959 for safer travel and to relieve congestion on Grand Boulevard. But a historic home was in the way.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Our Lady of Lourdes

As early as the 1830s, Catholic missionaries fanned out across the region to teach Christianity to the Native tribes long before Spokane’s founding. Many of those priests were from the Society of Jesus, called the Jesuits, a large religious order that emphasized evangelism, education, charity and humanitarian work.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Aircraft over Spokane

Fairchild Air Force Base has announced that its 2026 SkyFest air show will be June 6 to 7, showcasing current and historical aircraft. But since the first biplanes in the 1920s, Spokane skies have been a veritable airshow of military planes for almost a century.
News >  Washington

Then and Now: Fast Mail Train

The Great Northern Fast Mail train No. 27 came through Spokane every evening in the early 20th century. Its route from Chicago to the West Coast took more than 47 hours but was the fastest way to send a letter before air mail. The Railway Mail Service’s clerks sorted mail on trains as they sped across the vast plains of the Western states.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Linder’s Lodge

The rustic Bear Creek Lodge along North Mt. Spokane Park Drive, just outside the state park, was built in 1952 but closed in 2023 and sold to the park for a new headquarters building.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Santa Claus comes to town

Retail commerce and Santa Claus have been a part of Spokane holidays since the turn of the 20th century. The character of Santa entered American culture through the many drawings of illustrator Thomas Nast, dating back to the Civil War. The story best known as “The Night Before Christmas” filled out the lore of the beloved Christmas icon.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: The Ice Palace

Riverfront Park’s Ice Palace, which opened the day after Thanksgiving in 1977, had a 40-year run as a downtown winter attraction. Opening day included demonstrations by local figure skating clubs that were set to disco music. A new park mascot called Dudley, Dean of Dawgs, styled like Disneyland costumed characters, was introduced to the crowd.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Knickerbocker Apartments

The Knickerbocker Apartments at Fifth Avenue and Howard Street in Spokane were built in 1911 in the midst of the city’s great period of growth. Apartments and hotels were springing up to house the workers flooding into the city.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: The Progressive Party

In April 1916, 80 to 100 members of the Spokane County Progressive Party held their county convention and elected 22 delegates for the state convention in June. The progressives, also nicknamed the Bull Moose Party after former President Theodore Roosevelt, were an offshoot of the Republican Party.

Then and Now: Mearow and Hale buildings

There are four buildings on the south side of the 200 block of West Riverside Avenue that date back to 1905 to 1909. They are some of the few existing single-room-occupancy hotels that once filled old Spokane. More than 150 such hotels housed workers from 1895 to 1915, when the city’s population exploded, quadrupling to more than 100,000 people in 20 years.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: JCPenney’s Toyland

Spokane’s retail scene in the early 20th century featured stores like the Wonder, Palace and Culbertson-Grote-Rankin department stores which defined the modern shopping experience. Those stores were then sold or merged with Culbertson’s, Penneys or Bon Marché.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Joe Albi Stadium

The stadium that was later named for sports booster Joe Albi opened as Spokane Memorial Stadium in 1950. Intended for multiple uses, one of the first events was the Apple Cup between the Washington State Cougars and the Washington Huskies. It had been 40 years since the Apple Cup was played at a Spokane venue.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Britt’s

The popular discount stores of the early 20th century didn’t pop up overnight. Many startups and small chains either had merged or consolidated with bigger companies.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Sullivan Road Bridge

Getting roadways across rivers and railroads was always a challenge in Spokane. As residents spread through Spokane Valley, north-south arterials became critical.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Brunot Hall

The story of Brunot Hall is about the growth of Protestantism in the West and education of girls from well-to-do families in early Spokane.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Spokane Brewing office

Spokane had four breweries trying to provide beer to the workers rebuilding Spokane after the 1889 fire. The beer makers jockeyed for market share through the 1890s.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Realty Building

The 15-story U.S. Bank building at Stevens Street and Riverside Avenue was built as the Old National Bank in 1910, setting a new mark as the tallest building and the most stylish, with its light-colored brick and creamy glazed terra cotta tile.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Columbia Cavalcade

As 1939 dawned, Spokane wanted to celebrate the state’s Golden Jubilee, 50 years of statehood since 1889. The celebration would tell the saga of half a century in the rugged Northwest while also recounting Spokane’s reconstruction after its catastrophic fire, also 50 years prior.
News >  Spokane

Then and Now: Indian Village at the Interstate Fair

The earliest Spokane fairs, often focused on horse racing, started in 1886 in the area of Corbin Park. In 1901, the fair moved to East Spokane, near Sprague and Altamont, where it was first called the Spokane Interstate Fair.